Bracket.



A. D. HILL.

BRACKET.

11 21110111011 FILED .1111. '1, 1911.

1,004,426. Patented se t ze, 1911.

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BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 7, 1911.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

Serial No. 601,288.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALMoN D. HILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at East Wakefield, in the county of Carroll and State of NewHampshire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Brackets, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in folding brackets which aredesigned as a temporary support for shelves, scaffolds or the like andthe primary object of the invention is to construct a bracket of thischaracter which may be easily and quickly positioned upon a suitablesupport and which has its parts so arranged as to effectively sustain ashelf or bracket, and which at the same time may be easily and quicklydisconnected from its support and folded into a compact package, so thatthe same may be readily transported.

Another object of the invention is to simplify and improve the foldingbracket upon which I received United States Patent No. 965,816, grantedto me on July 6, 1910.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription progresses, the invention resides in the novel constructionand arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of the deviceshowing the same in its open or supporting position. Fig. 2 is a partialvertical sectional View of the device when folded. Fig. 3 is a verticaltransverse sectional view upon the line 22 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detailsectional View illustrating the connection of the brace member and thesupporting members, when in their open position; Fig. 5 is an elevationof a portion of the leg member.

meral 1 designates the improved folding bracket. This bracket 1comprises essent-ially a support member 2, a leg member 3 and a bracemember 4. The support member 2 is either integrally provided with or hasconnected thereto in any suitable or preferred manner, an extending hook5. The

hook 5 is adapted to be inserted within an opening provided in a wallwhen the device is to support shelves. The hook member is also adaptedto be positioned upon partitions or the same may be of a suitable lengthto extend across a wall when the device is to support a scaffold. Thesupport 2 is sub- Stantially U-shaped in cross section and the In theaccompanying drawings the nu-v said support is pivotally connected withthe leg 3 as indicated by the numeral 6. Also connected with the pivot 6is a suitable hood 7, the latter havin its rear edges bent to form anadditiona bearing face for the bracket. The lower extremities of thehood are each bent horizontally and the inner edges of the saidhorizontal portions are bent upwardly so that the hood provides aneffective bearing for the upper portion of the bracket,

The support 2 has its lower edges formed with a longitudinally extendingcut away portion, the latter adapted to provide the shoulders 8 and 9,the purpose of which will be presently set forth. Straddling the support2 is a saddle 10. The side arms of the said saddle are formed withalining openings and these openings are adapted for the reception of apintle 11 whereby the brace 4 is pivotally connected and secured uponthe support 2. substantially U-shaped in cross section, but is of a sizeadapted to fit snugly within the U-shaped support 2 when the members arefolded together. The pintle 11 is adapted, when the device is in set-upposition, to contact with the shoulders 8, so that the limit of movementof the saddle 10 as well as that of the brace 4 is effectively limitedin one direction.

The lower end of the brace 4 has its connecting wall cut away for asuitable distance to provide means whereby the arms of the U-shapedbrace may straddle the vertical rib 12 of the leg 3. This rib 12 isprovided with a plurality of depressions or cut away portions 13 andslidably mounted upon the substantially T-shaped leg is, what I term aretaining element 14. This member 14is constructed of a single strip ofsuitable material and is bent to conform to the shape of the T-shapedleg 3. The arms or outwardly extending portions of the said member 13are each formed with alining L- shaped openings 15, and pivotallyconnected between the said arms and with the T- shaped openings, as at16, is the lower extremity of the brace 4.

In setting up the device, the saddle 10 is slid along the support 2until its pintle 11 contacts with the shoulder 8. The brace 4 is slidupon the T-shaped leg 3 until its pintle is brought into alinement withany of the depressions 13. The pintle 1G is then forced within the saiddepression and the cut away The brace 4 is also end of the brace engagesthe sides of the brace in relation to the leg.

a longitudinally cut away to provide spaced From the above description,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the simplicity ofthe device, as well as the advantages thereof will be readily apparentto those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and whileI have illustrated and described the preferred embodi ment of theimprovement, as it now appears to me, minor details of constructionwithin the scope of the appended claims may be; made if desired.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, is

1. A folding bracket comprising a support member, said support memberhaving its lower portion formed with an offset wall, a 1 saddle adaptedto straddle the support, said saddle having its arms provided with a pinadapted to contact the offset of the support, a leg member pivotallyconnected wit-h one i end of the support, a brace member pivotallyconnected with the saddle and slidably 1 mounted upon the leg, and meansfor del tachably connecting and securing the brace to the leg.

2. In a folding bracket, a support meinber, a hook connected with thesupport member, said support having its lower portion,

shoulders, a saddle straddling the supp,or.t, said saddle having itsarms provided witha pintle adapted to engage the outer shoulders of thesupport, a brace member engaged by the pintle of the saddle, a legmember pivotally connected with the support, a hook connected with thepivot of the support and leg members, said hood having oppositelydisposed horizontal portions formed with: vertical edges, and means forremovably securing and sustaining the free ends of the brace upon theleg member.

3. In a detachable bracket of the class set forth, a support member,said support being U-shaped in cross section and having its lower edgesformed with a longitudinally extending depression adapted to provideshoulders, a saddle straddling the support, said saddle having its armspivotally connected together and the said pivot adapted to abut againstits outer shoulder when the bracket is in its set-up position, a crosssectionally T-shaped member pivotally connected with the support, saidleg member having its central portion formed with a plurality of spaceddepressions, a brace pivotally connected with the saddle of the support,said brace having its opposite end bifurcated to straddle the centralportion of the T-shaped leg, a pintle connecting the bifurcated portionsand adapted to be engaged with one of the depressions of the leg, and asustaining element straddling the leg and adapted to retain the pintlein engagement with the depressions of the leg.

4. In a detachable bracket of the class set forth, a cross sectionallyU-shaped support,

said support having its lower edges cut away i longitudinally to provideshoulders, a saddle straddling the support and having its lower armsconnected and adapted to abut against the outermost shoulder when thedevice is in its set-up position, a hook upon the support, a crosssectionally T-shaped leg member pivotally connected with the rear of thesupport and between the sides thereof, the central rib of the leg memberbeing formed with a plurality of spaced depressions, a cross sectionallyEU-shaped brace pivotally connected between the arms of the saddle andadapted to engage bet-ween the sides of the support,

the said brace having its free end stra dling the central rib of theleg, a pintle .carried by the brace and adapted to engage within one ofthe depressions of the leg, a sustaining element, said sustainingelement comprising a member cor-responding with the cross sectional form.of the leg and having its oppositely disposed arms provided with L-shaped slots, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALMON D. HILL. Witnesses:

-CHARLES M, AMBROSE LORENZQ D. NICHOLS.

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